Capablanca (1987)
Overview
1925. José Raúl Capablanca, a famous Cuban chess player and employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, arrives in Moscow for an international chess tournament. The trip, taking place under Machado's dictatorship, casts doubt on his future in this position. The film shows Capablanca's dramatic matches with Lasker, Tartakower, and Bogolubov, his tragic love for Bolshoi Theatre ballerina Sasha Mozhaeva, and a simultaneous game in which he lost to the very young Mikhail Botvinnik.
Cast
Galina Belyaeva
Sashenka Mojaeva
César Évora Díaz
Capablanca
Eslinda Núñez
Adolfo Llauradó
Boris Nevzorov
Marina Yakovleva
Beatriz Valdés
Vladimir Cruz
Andrei Gusev
Igor Shavlak
Grigoriy Lyampe
Elena Kostina
Vladimir Razumovskiy
Dmitriy Orlovskiy
Vladimir Udalov
